David Halsey didn’t envision spending his retirement years working as a sales associate at Canadian Tire.

But it’s where the former Sears Hometown store dealer has ended up after walking away from his unprofitable Lindsay, Ont. store a year and a half ago.

“At 67 I’m working for $11 an hour,” Mr. Halsey chuckles.

“You do what you have to do. We used all of our retirement savings and we sold our house, sold all of the trucks we had for deliveries. We had to get rid of everything and we took a loss on it, but we had no income.”